Everyone Says I Love You
It stars Alan Alda, Allen, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas, Goldie Hawn, Gaby Hoffmann, Natasha Lyonne, Edward Norton, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Tim Roth, and David Ogden Stiers.Holden’s romantic gesture, at DJ’s urging, backfires when Skylar swallows the ring he slipped into her parfait, resulting in a trip to the ER ("Makin' Whoopee").On vacation with her father Joe in Venice, Italy, DJ and her friend, whose mother is a psychologist, listen through a hole in the wall on the clientele's therapy sessions.DJ falls for a gondolier and plans to drop out of college to marry him until she meets her next "flame": a student at Columbia University ("Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine").Begging to be let out of the getaway car, Skylar successfully escapes and eventually reconciles at a Halloween Party with a forgiving Holden ("Chiquita Banana").The website's critics consensus reads, "A likable, infectious musical, Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You is sometimes uneven but always toe-tapping and fun."[6] Janet Maslin wrote a strongly positive review in The New York Times, describing the film as "a delightful and witty compendium of [Allen's] favorite things."[7] Among the film's strongest detractors was Jonathan Rosenbaum, who described it as "creepy" and claimed, "this characterless world of Manhattan-Venice-Paris, where love consists only of self-validation, and political convictions of any kind are attributable to either hypocrisy or a brain condition, the me-first nihilism of Allen's frightened worldview is finally given full exposure, and it's a grisly thing to behold.